Meditations on "Recovery"

Why does God bother with rebellious humankind? As we read stories in the Bible of those who claim to be people of God, we notice that they are fickle.

There is a right time for everything, and everything on earth will happen at the right time.

There is no more tiring way of life than living as a phony.

How many times have we spoken before thinking and, as the saying goes, “put our foot in our mouth?

In life there often seems to be two groups of people, those who speak well and look good and those who always seem to get things wrong.

Just for today I will try to live in conscious contact with God praying only for knowledge of His will and the power to carry it out.

We lost our way. That is an obvious fact. We fell into addictive and destructive lifestyles.

From the chaos of our dysfunctional lives many of us called out to God with words like, “God if you are really there, please help me.

If asked, how many people we encounter daily would say we have the quality of being agreeable?

We live in a beautiful world created by God. Because God desired a people for relationship with Himself, He made humans in His own image.

The second promise found in the Big Book of AA tells us that if we continually work the steps, “We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.

One of the things many of us missed while growing up was tenderness in our homes.